How do you hit a running deer?
#52
ORIGINAL: NEW61375
What's your point? We all miss.
What's your point? We all miss.

#54
Joined: Dec 2006
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From: Boca Raton, FL
ORIGINAL: Sureisaniceskimask
I was just kidding around, but my point is that eventually you'll fire a shot that hits a deer in the @ss and he'll be left wondering around with a bad wound. Just doesn't seem right is all, but again, to each his own....
ORIGINAL: NEW61375
What's your point? We all miss.
What's your point? We all miss.
T.O. thinks he is the greatest WR of all time...that does'nt make it so!

#56
Boone & Crockett
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I'm surprised not more people said that it was wrong to shoot at a running deer, a few people said it, but not as many as I would have thought.
Saying to only take a shot you are 100% sure will quickly kill the deer is just talk.
It is what we all hope for but not realistic.
#57
ORIGINAL: NY Bowhunter
Just talk? An arrow doesn't leave my rest or a bullet leave my gun unless I'm 110% sure the deer is dead. What is your percentage 50/50 or so?
Just talk? An arrow doesn't leave my rest or a bullet leave my gun unless I'm 110% sure the deer is dead. What is your percentage 50/50 or so?
I think I'm just trying to say that shooting at a running deer is going to eventually cause a deer to suffer and that there is no such thing as a 100% shot, close, but not quite.....

#58
I don't want to sound liek the ethics police, but c'mon[:@]. I cannot believe there is an actual conversation and support for this.
Everyone knows that taking a running shot is less than ethical.
I have seen men that can shoot asprins out of the air with a bow, but they don't take running shots. Just because you can do it, does not mean it isthe right thing to do for the animal.
Everyone knows that taking a running shot is less than ethical.
I have seen men that can shoot asprins out of the air with a bow, but they don't take running shots. Just because you can do it, does not mean it isthe right thing to do for the animal.
#59
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From: Gainesvegas, Georgia
Sorry dude (NY Bowhunter), but your wrong. You may be a champion marksman, and never missed in your life, and always had your deer fall instantly...but there is NO WAY FOR ANYBODY TO BE 110% SURE OF ANYTHING EXCEPT FOR DEATH AND TAXES!!! Crap happens. You dont know the physiological condition of the deer you shoot. You have no idea how much " fight" can be in a deer. A bad shot can always happen, and there is no way anybody can be sure that a deer is "dead" at the moment you pull your trigger or release your bow. thousands of freak occurances happen man, and if you think you or your gear is "110%" sure, then you my friend have an arrogance problem...no disrespect implied...
My brother in law shot a wounded deer point blank in the head with a Winchester 30-30, and he DID NOT die. Most would think that shot is 110% sure to put a deer out of his misery...but it was'nt. And its not like this deer hade some wacky condition...he was wounded by an inaccurate hunter[&:]
My brother in law shot a wounded deer point blank in the head with a Winchester 30-30, and he DID NOT die. Most would think that shot is 110% sure to put a deer out of his misery...but it was'nt. And its not like this deer hade some wacky condition...he was wounded by an inaccurate hunter[&:]
#60
ORIGINAL: CervidSlayer
NO WAY FOR ANYBODY TO BE 110% SURE OF ANYTHING EXCEPT FOR DEATH AND TAXES!!!
NO WAY FOR ANYBODY TO BE 110% SURE OF ANYTHING EXCEPT FOR DEATH AND TAXES!!!



